Combined cigar cutter and lighter.



PATENTED MAY 14, 1907.

I. J. NAWN. COMBINED GIGAR GUTIER AND LIGHTER.

.APPLICATION FILED MA'R.12.1906.

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COMBINED CIGAR CUTTER AND LIGHTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed March l2, 1906. Serial No. 305,606.

To all whom t 11i/cog concern:

Be it known that I, PHIL J. NAWN, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in a Combined Cigar Cutter and Lighter, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the yaccompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improve# ments in combined cigar cuttersand lighters and it consists in the novel construction and arrangementof parts more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out inthe claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a face elevation of the device; Fig. 2 is avertical transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 'is a toplan thereof; Fig. 4 is a sectional i detail on t e line 4-4 of Fig. 1;Fig. 5 is a top plan (omitting the waste receptacle) With the cutterdisk rotated ninety degrees r sufficiently to bring the electriccontacts together; and Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional detail on thebroken line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to construct a cigar cutter which uponsevering'the tip of the cigar brings into operation the lighting devicefrom which the cigar may be lighted.

A further object is to construct a device whose principle of operationneed not necessarily restrict it to gas lighters, but may extend to anyother class, as for example electric, incandescent and the like as maysuggest themselves to the skilled mechanic, all

as will be more fully apparent from a detailed description of theinvention which is as follows: v

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a gas supply pipe leading to anysource of supply (not shown), said pipe terminating -in a burner tube 2carrying a waste receptacle or basin 3 to catch the cigar tips cut offbythe knife. Mounted in the tube 2 beneath the shoulder 4 is a hollowconical rock-valve 5 having a screw-threaded stem 6 at one end, overwhich is passed a securing nut 7, the op osite end of the valveterminating in a Fead 8 about which is looped the central portion of aspring 9, one end or arm of the spring frictionally and yieldinglybearing against a pin or staple 10 on the cutter disk 11 which issecured centrally to said head 8, and the opposite end or arm of the ;5spring being secured by a screw '12 to the burner tube 2. The rear faceof the cutterdisk is provided with a pin 13 which ar.- rests movementI.thereof in one direction by strikingftheburner tube, .the point ofarrest corresponding to the normal position of the disk when not incommission.

Secured to the receptacle 3 directly 1n front of and in proximity to,the cutter disk is a cigar-supporting plate 14 (in the present 4instanceof ornamental design) provided With an inwardly tapering opening or'socket 15 for receiving the tip of the cigar C, the cigar tipprojecting into' the semiannular space 16 cut from the diskand being inthe path of rotation of the cutting edge of the knife or cutter 17secured to the disk on one of the radial webs 1S between one end of thespace 16 and the adjacent segmental space 16. Surmounting the edge ofthe disk is an index or arrow-head 19 to indicate the direction in whichthe cutter disk shall be turned to cut off the cigar tip.

Projecting from the rear of the cutter at a point diametrically oppositetothe knife or blade 17 is a yielding contact arm or wiper 20 which,with the rotation of the cutter disk to the point Where the knife seversthe cigar tip (a rotation substantially equal to an arc A of 90degrees), contacts or wipes against a bevel contact head 21 at the endof a rigid arm 22, the latter bei/ng either insulated from the burnertube which carries it, or being made of insulating material, theconducting wire w leading to', any source of electrical energy (notshown) being in electric connection with the head 21. The return wire wmay be connected to any conducting portion ofthe device (which is madeof metal). The peripheral wall of the hollow valve 5 which normallyshuts off the supply of gas to the burner tip 2 overlapsf'the wall ofits casing on either side ofthe passage or bore of the hollow tip 2 atrifle less than 90 degrees, so that by turning the disk a full 90degrees by which time the cutting edge of the blade has passed throughthe tip and severed the same, the passage of the gas past the valve intothe burner tip andfoutthrough the jet 'orifice 23 has already taken4place. So that the gas begins toescape a trifle in advance of theproduction of the electric sparks as a result of the rubbing'between thecontacts 20, 21, Which as abovestated takes place substantiallysimultaneouslyfwith the cutting off of the cigar tip. The arrow 19 isprovided with IOO a knob 24 by which the disk may be seized and given aturn in the proper direction,

The operation of the device may be described as follows: The cigar isinserted into plementary shearing edge 'with the cutting edge of theblade 17, and the disk llis given a turn of 90 degrees or far enough tocut off the cigar-tip. By that time the valve 5 (which revolves with thedisk) will have opened the passage for the gas, the latter escapingthrough the jet orifice 23 Where it is ignited by the electric sparksformed by the contacts between the electrodes 20 and 21. Upon releasingthe disk the spring 9 will restore the parts to their normal position,the pin 13 arresting the disk at the proper point of its return movementby striking the wall of the pipe 2.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a combined cigar cutter and lighter, a stationary support for thecigar, an oscillating cutter therefor, a lighter, a pipe for conveyinggas to the lighter, a gas-valve disposed about the axis of oscillationof the cutter and controlled by the movement of the cutter in onedirection, and me ans for igniting thel gas upon its release by thevalve, substantially as set forth.

2. In a combined cigar cutter and lighter,

i a stationary support for the cigar, an oscillating cutter therefor, alighter, a pipe for conveying gas to the lighter, a gas-valve disposedabout the-axis of the cutter and actuated to an open position by themovement of the cutter in one direction, and an igniter for the gasoperated by the same movement the cutter', substantially as set forth.

3. In a combined cigar cutter and lighter,

a stationary cigar supporting plate having a the socket 15 whose inneredge forms a comsocket for the insertion of the cigar tip, a'spring-controlled cutter-disk oscillating in proximity to the plate, ablade on the disk for severing the cigar tip, a gas burner tubecontiguous to the disk, a hollow gas-valve in said tube coupled to thecutter-disk opposite the axis of oscillation of the latter, a burnertiphaving a terminal jet orifice, forming an extension of the burner-tube,an insulated arm having a contact head forming a terminal electrode ofan electric circuit located in the path of the gas escaping through saidorifice, and a wiper or contact arm carried by the cutter-disk andforming the opposite 5 electrode, the parts operating, substantially as,and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a combined cigar cutter and lighter, a gas supply pipe and burnertherefor, an os cillating gas-valve, a cutter connected to 6 andoscillating about the axis of the valve and operating the same to anopen position with the cutting movement of the cutter and therebypermitting the gas to flow to the burner, and an igniter for lightingthe gas in 6 connection with the aforesaid movement of the cutter,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afHx my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

PI-IIL J, NAWN.

Vitnesses:

EMIL STAREK, MARY D. WHITCOMB.

